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Faster & Much Faster
The remarkable progress made in the area of machine power, although the cutting tool
rough milling in the 1990’s saw the introduction should run fast. Therefore, light-duty machines
of fast feed milling (FF), also referred to as featuring axis drives with sufficient velocity are
high feed milling (HFM). These highly efficient sufficient for FF milling.
methodologies overturned established views and
brought radical new ideas to the field. Energy saving shallow-cut “fast” technology
provides an excellent alternative to power
Rather than use the traditional high metal removal consuming deep-cut methods. Impressive high
technique – milling with considerable depths metal removal rates (MRR) at reduced power
and widths of cut – users of the new approach input is not the only advantage of the strategy-
continued to machine with similar width of cuts, FF milling delivers two additional benefits.
although they used a much smaller depth of cut
and applied much faster speeds with substantially Shallow DOC enables contours to be produced
increased feed per tooth. that are very close to the final required shape of
a machined surface, reducing or even eliminating
Milling with a large axial depth of cut (DOC) semi-finish passes. In addition, the small
requires the kind of cutting force provided cutting edge angles of FF milling cutters allows
by high-power machine tools, whereas FF considerable increases in feeds and speeds per
roughing with shallow DOC needs a lot less tooth (fz) due to the effect of chip thinning.
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